Comments on: Korea wins Asian Games, Choo exempt from military service?http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/19/korea-wins-asian-games-choo-exempt-from-military-service/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:03:49 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: The Baseball Idiothttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/19/korea-wins-asian-games-choo-exempt-from-military-service/comment-page-1/#comment-92981
Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:58:05 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=27093#comment-92981“And don’t overstate it. They don’t get shot at in the DMZ every day. Incidents between the Koreas are far more likely at sea than in the DMZ”

Time changes everything, but when I was there 15 years ago, it was pretty much a free-fire zone. That’s my experience. Lots of ‘training accidents’.

It might be safer now than it was, but those bullet throwers they carry get a lot of use. Way more than the public ever hears.

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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:21:30 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=27093#comment-92960Hey, if they’d lost and he didn’t get the exemption, then he’d gone and abandoned his country rather than serve, I would be right there with you. But the fact is that this is well established, its full of precedent, and he took a gamble by not serving right away at 18 and hoping he could earn this exemption and the gamble paid off.

I’ve been on this issue from the beginning, because I feel many americans do not understand what its like to have a truly hostile neighbor on our borders and as such see something like this as akin to the draft during Vietnam. But at the same time, taking advantage of a loophole specificially designed by the government for these situations, one with a high chance of failure, does not bother me at all.

And don’t overstate it. They don’t get shot at in the DMZ every day. Incidents between the Koreas are far more likely at sea than in the DMZ.

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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:26:32 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=27093#comment-92937Has anyone bothered to ask Choo’s fellow countrymen what they think of this? You know, the guys that have to give two years of thier lives or go to jail because their country is still in a state of war with an aggressive neighbor who has repeatedly vowed to crush and enslave them.

Have you ever wondered what the guys living 50 to a hall, sleeping on wooden slabs, eating less food than they would get at home, and getting paid about $50 a month, while undergoing corporal punishment for the slightest offense actually think of this? Bet they’re having a lot of fun getting shot at up in the DMZ every day.

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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:12:18 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=27093#comment-92814So Bastien has now been demoted and has to cover the Indians rather than the Jays! It would be nice if the Toronto Sun got rid of Elliot as often makes stuff up, but I suspect that we will be stuck with him. I do not read the Sun, but sometimes, Elliot’s dumbest stories are picked up on US sites such as this one.
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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:42:25 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=27093#comment-92807Of course now Indian fans will be subject to Bastian as well.. now if we could only get rid of Elliot and get a few GOOD baseball writers to cover the Jays.
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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:41:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=27093#comment-92806Too cool. So when’s Cleveland going to trade him?
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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:34:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=27093#comment-92804As an Indians’ fan, this is likely to be the biggest victory I get to celebrate for quite some time…
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